One of the most evocative places in the city, this is where the leather tanneries had set up shop since the Middle Ages, as the fourteenth-century municipal statutes had declared the tanning activity lawful only if along the pergola that overlooked the Topinello or “Chanel of the Mills”. In a document of 1856 it is said: "Four large tanneries of leathers and hides are built in Foligno, they are prepared in various shapes, white, black, shaved and grained, with the leathers especially, as in the course of a year it is calculated that there are a n. of 14,000, or 420,000 pounds; the quantity of the others, that is of the hides, is much smaller, as it is limited to just 17,000 pounds, more or less. These are workshops in a favorable condition which can sustain competition, not only as the best and most valuable of our State, but also of those of foreign origins, since the best methods and the most opportune and favorable systems usually practiced in France, and in Russia, were here adopted, especially for the calves, and for the shaved white cowhide".
